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Hi,

At the Auckland CellML meeting today, we discussed the possibility of
changing to a better tracker and moving some of the mailing list
discussions onto that tracker. Everyone at the meeting agreed with this
idea, so I am now looking for some input from the wider CellML community.

By doing this, we are aiming to address several issues:
1) There is often lot of traffic on the mailing lists, but people are
having difficulty following it. It was suggested that we could instead
carry out these discussions on a good bug-tracker (which supports CC
lists). We could broadcast newly created issues to the list, and
everyone who was interested in following up on the issue could then add
their address to the CC list and therefore see any comments being added
to the tracker. This would ensure that everyone has the opportunity to
follow topics they are interested in, but users don't get flooded with
issues they don't care about.

2) Our present tracker makes it hard to browse issues by category (there
are sort functions, but the user interface is not usable enough to use
it regularly to see all the bugs for a given component and so on). The
consequence of this is that we end up with lots of small trackers, e.g.
one for PCEnv, one for the CellML API, one for the site, and moving
issues between them is cumbersome (e.g. a bug filed by an end user about
PCEnv might actually turn out to be a CellML API issue or even a CellML
specification issue).

If we had a good tracker, we could let all discussion take place on it.
We could also have one big CellML tracker which collected bugs (in the
general sense, which means everything from a concept through to a
proposal through to an implementation) for everyone doing CellML related
work (both at Auckland and for other groups which also wanted to use the
tracker), which would hopefully increase the community focus of the
CellML project, and make it easier for people to follow the issues they
are interested in.

If we used a Plone based tracker, we would be able to have a single
search which searched both the CellML site and the tracker. However, I
think that this is just one consideration, and as Randall pointed out
today, it already doesn't integrate with mailman. I think that both
PloneCollectorNG and Poi lack the sort of usability that we require to
make the tracker useful. While they may be able to support some of the
features we need with a bit of coding, I don't think anyone has the time
to do this, and so a more well established tracker with a larger set of
features available out of the box would probably be better.

I would recommend Bugzilla (Randall also mentioned JIRA, but it seems to
be a commercial product, and price aside, if we can't review the tracker
source code I'm not sure we should trust it with our data).

Best regards,
Andrew

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• [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, Andrew Miller, 06/27/2007
  • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, David Nickerson, 06/27/2007
    • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, Andrew Miller, 06/27/2007
  • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, Randall Britten, 06/27/2007
    • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, Andrew Miller, 06/27/2007
      • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, David Nickerson, 06/27/2007
        • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, Andrew Miller, 06/27/2007
          • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, David Nickerson, 06/27/2007
            • [cellml-discussion] CellML tracker, Matt , 06/27/2007

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